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Tag Archives: culture
Fun Link Friday: Ikebana Battles 🌿🌻
What artful masterpiece can you put together in five minutes? At the third annual flower arranging battle in Ota, Tokyo this summer, spectators got to find out! Although the traditional art of ikebana (flower arrangement) in Japan is often thought of … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, flower arrangement, fun link friday, ikebana, Japan, Japanese culture
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Resource: The Meiji at 150 Project
Today we introduce a wonderful, multifaceted and multi-year project spearheaded by the University of British Columbia that has been bringing great content to the Japanese Studies community in a number of forms: The Meiji at 150 Project. In honor of … Continue reading
Job Opening: Japanese Literature and Culture
Assistant Professor in Early and Classical Japanese Literature and Culture University of Colorado Boulder The Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Colorado Boulder invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Early and Classical Japanese … Continue reading
Fun Link Friday: Miniature Bonsai Sculptures
In the past we’ve featured some neat Friday features on bonsai, like magnetic tree bases for your favorite trees or bonsai in space, and this week there’s even more fun to be had! Forbes recently featured the Japanese artist Takanori Aiba, … Continue reading
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Tagged bonsai, culture, fun link friday, Japan, Japanese culture, trees
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Fun Link Friday: Early Sound & Video Footage of Japan
This week is a quick Fun Link Friday, as I don’t have much info on the origins of these audiovisual materials. These videos have been making their rounds lately, and so far as I can tell people have taken them … Continue reading
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Tagged audiovisual, culture, fun link friday, Japan, Japanese culture, media, modern, modern history, modern Japan, video
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Fun Link Friday: Portraits of samurai
I’ve been majorly guilty of neglecting our Fun Link Friday posts, being busy this last month running the medieval komonjo workshop here at Michigan, but as the summer winds down I’m starting to catch up on my blogging duties! So … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, early modern, early modern Japan, fun link friday, Japan, photography, warrior
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Resource: Japanese Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
For those looking for more educational resources to use in the classroom, today we’ll briefly introduce a resource developed by the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures with sponsorship from Hitachi: The Online Resource for Japanese Archaeology and … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient, ancient history, archaeology, culture, history, Japan, Japanese culture, material culture, pedagogy
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Resource: Metadatabase of Japanese Old Photographs in Bakumatsu-Meiji Period
Nagasaki University Library maintains a collection of Japanese photographs from the Bakumatsu (1853 and 1867) and Meiji (1868-1912) periods that represent some of the earliest photographs of Japan as it transitioned from the Tokugawa shogunate to the Meiji state. Holding … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Bakumatsu, Bakumatsu period, culture, Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese photography, meiji, Meiji period, photography, travel
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Fun Link Friday: Traditional Japanese Colors
A quickie fun link for you all while I’m out of town! Have you ever been told that the color of a gift from Japan is in a very traditional color? Or wondered, when translating, exactly what color that kanji … Continue reading
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Tagged color, culture, digital tools, fun link friday, Japan, Japanese culture
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Resource: Re-envisioning Japan
How do we connect to objects, and how did people connect to them when they were made? Today’s resource is ReEnvisioning Japan, a collaborative digital humanities project produced through the University of Rochester’s River Campus Libraries Digital Scholarship Lab. Rooted … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th century, culture, film, Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese society, materiality, media, media studies, modern, modern Japan, resource, society
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